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Monsanto May Have To Repay 10 Years of GM Soya Royalties In Brazil
scibri writes "Biotech giant Monsanto is one step closer to losing billions of dollars in revenues from its genetically-modified Roundup Ready soya beans, after the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled the company must repay royalties collected over the past decade. Since GM crops were legalized in 2005, Monsanto has charged Brazilian farmers royalties of 2% on their sales of Roundup Ready soya beans. The company also tests Brazilian soya beans that are sold as non-GM — if they turn out to be Roundup Ready, the company charges the farmers 3%. Farmers challenged this as an unjust tax on their business. In April a regional court ruled against Monsanto, though that ruling has been put on hold pending an appeal. The Supreme Court, meanwhile has said that whatever the final ruling is, it will apply throughout the whole country."
If I was standing in front of the Monsanto CEO, and someone handed me a gun or knife or hammer, there would be no more CEO. Just a corpse. Tyrants who treat the People like serfs, and destroy their freedom to "pursue happiness" as farmers, deserve nothing less than death.
Or I could just run for Congress and try to change things from the inside, like Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday June 15, @06:09AM
They sue farmers who knowingly use seeds with the Monsanto gene in them without paying.
Burn in hell anonymous COWARD and use your actual ID instead of hiding like a little pussy girl. Plus read: http://www.percyschmeiser.com/conflict.htm There are also a TON of videos on youtube documenting Monsanto's RIAA/MPAA-like actions against farmers, destroying them in the process. I don't even know why slashdot allows registered users to post as ACs.
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If the world were populated with jackassery such as yourself, more people would die, not less, as technology would lag as people gave up developing it because it got looted as soon as they developed it.
You are part of the problem, not part of the solution, regardless of how big and kind you think your heart is.
A kind heart + slower tech = mass murder. The road to Hell is paved with good intent.
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They don't have total control over any food except their own engineered food.
If you have issues with contamination, say so. Clearly you also have problems with people developing new products and being secure in their exclusive right to it for a limited period.
You are no friend of humanity. This destroys technological progress, leading to megadeaths through delayed tech advancement.
You just have no parallel world you can show with corpses piled up to compare to the more rapidly-advancing eociety.
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